SMALL-POX AND LEPROSY AT HONOLULU.

Evening Star, Issue 2924, 3 July 1872, Page 3

SMALL-POX AND LEPROSY AT HONOLULU.

The Commercial Advertiser of the 25th May says ; No little excitement was caused on Thursday afternoon by the announcement that a case of small-pox had been discovered in town. The person attacked by the disease is a young native female, under twenty years of She left here on board the schooner Juanita, on the 17th, for Molokai, complaining at the time of a slight fever and headache. In a day or so after the eruption came out, and soon increased, covering the entire cuticle from head to feet. At Kahului, where the Juanita met the Ka Moi, the girl was put on board the latter vessel, and brought to Honolulu. Smallpox raged fearfully in Philadelphia during the past winter, and is always to be found in San Francisco in a more or less pronounced type. The statement is current that a person who carao here a passenger from San Francisco by the Nebraska on the sth instant, and who died in the American Hospital on the 7th, was sick with the smallpox. ” The same paper on the Ist Juue says : —“The ease of this disease which is now on the reef is pronounced by the physicians to be one of the most virulent sort. Another suspicious case has been discovered in town. This was a native man, in the Queen's Hospital, who has none of the symptoms of small-pox except the eruption.” The number of lepers sent to the asylum at Molokai from the date of its establishment to March 31, 1871, was 385 ; the deaths up tq that date were 199 ; remaining a,b the settlement, 38G. Included in the number of lepers are several half-castes, two or three Chinamen, apd one European. Several instances are known in the Sandwich Islands where women have married the second and third husband after the lirst had died of leprosy, and their later partners, after a short time, shared the fate of the lirst. The disease is a most contagious one. Whole families, and those who have lived with them, member by member, have become diseased. The lives of half-a-dozen persons may be endangered by the “ aloha ” of one person, and, if they were not separated from the other population, it is stated that “the consequence must ultimately b,e the ruin of the Hawaiian race, and the foreigner would soon be included in the catastrophe,” On May 7th a telegram was received in San Francisco from Isew York to the effect “that small-pox is increasing. Thirty-three new oases were reported to day.”